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Closing the attainment gaps
News
The research shows pupils from most ethnic minority groups are now on average achieving GCSE results that are as good as or better than their white British peers.
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Fighting cancer
Video
Prof Eleanor Stride and her team are fighting cancer, one bubble at a time, the new technology she is researching means that drugs can find the exact point of the tumour to fight the disease.
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Support from grandparents linked with lower levels of obesity in children
News
According to the study, published in Pediatric Obesity, emotional support from grandparents may have a preventative effect against child obesity, even with the presence of other risk factors.
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Designing a ‘base paint’ to fight cancer
Video
Immunocore is harnessing the body’s own immune cells to fight cancer. The biotechnology underpinning Immunocore is based on the science of founder Dr Bent Jakobsen, who led his own research team at Oxford’s Institute of Molecular Medicine until 2000.
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Just one in three weddings in England and Wales has a religious ceremony
News
Oxford University demographer John Haskey has charted the history of marriage since early Victorian times by analysing datasets looking at the manner of solemnisation and denomination in England and Wales.
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More 'constructive' thinking needed on migrant welfare benefits?
News
Study author Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, from the Oxford Institute of Social Policy, says one solution could be to set up an EU fund for helping local authorities most affected by immigration.
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Where do most of the internet users live?
News
On the map, the size of each country is based on the absolute number of its internet users, while keeping the countries’ and continents’ shapes close to their true shape.
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Wasting of Indian children in the recession 'linked to food price spikes'
News
The researchers examined the proportion of children who experienced 'wasting', a widely used measure of malnutrition that shows a child has a lower than expected weight given their height (based on World Health Organization standards).
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RCUK highlights Oxford's 'innovative' smart handpumps project
News
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Complex leases 'a major reason for cold, damp flats'
News
The Future-proofing Flats report identifies that one particular category of flats, older houses that have been converted into private flats, as the least energy efficient with the highest levels of damp.
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Children's centres 'popular but under pressure to deliver more with less’
News
The research, commissioned by the UK Government’s Department for Education, suggests that while children’s centres continue to be popular, almost half of the staff are dealing with families 'on social workers' books' who have complex needs and are increasingly the focus of their work.
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Supporting police reform in Nigeria
Video
Dr Oliver Owen’s five-year fieldwork study within the Nigerian Police Force is providing unique research evidence for reforms aimed at improving police performance, effectiveness and accountability.
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The film changing lives in the Indian Himalayas
Video
Dr Jane Dyson’s documentary on the challenges facing young people in the Indian Himalayas has reached school children, students and policymakers worldwide.
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Turning orange into grapefruit
Impact case study
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Voice analysis for everyone: health monitoring by phone
Video
Dr Ladan Baghai-Ravary is developing a fully automatic system to record and analyse speech, using existing telephone lines. This could lead to dramatic changes in the treatment of patients with speech disorders around the world, especially where smartphones might not be affordable or convenient.
Mobile users ‘resist use of ads’ in news
News
The report finds that many news brands are struggling to cut through on mobile with access to content increasingly mediated by third-parties such as Facebook, Apple and Google.
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Study pinpoints what part genes play in the age of first-time mums
News
The research was carried out by an international team working on the Sociogenome project, led by the University of Oxford and funded by the European Research Council.
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Children in poverty due to UK government’s ‘dysfunctional system’
News
It finds that changes by central government to immigration and welfare benefits under the ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy have left local authorities with a duty of care to safeguard children when their parents are precluded from working or accessing benefits.
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Professor Alison Etheridge
Randomness and order
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Professor Jonathan Cross
Randomness and order
This series grew out of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) conference ‘Randomness and Order’, at which academics in the fields of quantum physics, music, probability
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